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Oregon News

Oregon places new rules on homeowners living in certain high-risk wildfire areas

Rewards offered for 2024 wolf poachings in Oregon and Washington

Auditor Faults Wine Board for Lax Controls of State Cellar

Disability Rights Oregon asks judge to hold state in contempt for delay in admissions to psychiatric hospital

Flags are at half-staff in Oregon; why Trump is upset 

Oregon Political News

As session approaches, Oregon legislative aides seek a better contract

Lawmakers propose pause on rate hikes from utilities embroiled in wildfire lawsuits

Critics hail ag board’s support of Oregon overtime law reform

Metropolitan Portland News

Portland school board to vote on undocumented students, ICE resolution two weeks before Trump’s second inauguration

‘Difficult for all of us’: Clackamas County chair acknowledges criminal investigation of fellow commissioner

Multnomah County commissioners vow to build ‘legacy of hope’ at swearing-in ceremony

Portland Chamber to ponder future of Major League Baseball

Oregon Coast

Scientists predict the Pacific Northwest’s most active (undersea) volcano will erupt this year

Central/Eastern Oregon

McLane enters Oregon Senate with eye on the future

Willamette Valley Area

Some Albany students miss school, amid staffing shortage

Southern Oregon

DINT catches Meth dealer in homeless camps

Commissioners vote to terminate library lease

Fraud watch: Jackson County clerk unveils free property record monitoring service

Business News

Trump: ‘Interest rates are far too high’

Experian accused of failing to properly investigate consumer disputes

What’s good for a union isn’t always what’s good for workers

McDonald’s is ending some DEI programs

Natural Resource News

Public meetings scheduled for Northwest Forest Plan Amendment review

Health News

New rules will ban medical debt from your credit report

As strike looms, Providence St. Vincent to cap patients

What is HMPV? What to know as cases increase in China, the US

As many as 23M Americans exposed to toxic ‘forever chemicals’ via treated wastewater: Study

Energy & Environment

Tribes, environmentalists gather forces against Amazon’s Northwest nuclear plan

Trump eyes the end of wind energy construction

International News

Elon Musk helped Trump win. Now he’s looking at Europe, and many politicians are alarmed

Trudeau shuts down talk of making Canada a U.S. state

As Trump eyes Greenland, Danish king makes it bigger on his coat of arms

National News

Jimmy Carter’s casket arrives at the US Capitol, where he will lie in state

Man who exploded Tesla Cybertruck outside Trump hotel in Las Vegas used generative AI, police say

Judge temporarily blocks release of special counsel report on Trump classified-documents case

Meta Ends Fact-Checking in Free-Speech Pitch

National Political News

Trump refuses to rule out use of military force to take control of Greenland and the Panama Canal

Trump in news conference says ‘all hell will break out’ if Gaza hostages not released

Trump’s election as president certified by Congress, four years after Capitol attack

Trump’s America First becomes America expands

House passes immigration measure named after Laken Riley

Trump threatens economic, not military force, to annex Canada

North Carolina Supreme Court blocks state from certifying Democrat as winner in top court race

Democrats under fire for not sounding alarm earlier on Biden

Speaker Johnson: ‘Intention’ is to increase debt limit in massive Trump agenda bill

Greene promises bill renaming Gulf of Mexico ‘ASAP’

Opinion

Time for Gov. Kotek to look at saving Oregon’s old-growth forests

Editorial: Another round of deception at the Josephine County courthouse

Democrats still underestimate Trump

No one is above the law — except Trump